Long‐term indirect effects of mechanical cockle‐dredging on intertidal bivalve stocks in the Wadden Sea

By T. Piersma, A. Koolhaas, Anne Dekinga, J. Beukema, R. Dekker, K. Essink. 2001

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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In Global and Planetary Change

1. T. Piersma
2. J. Gils
3. Anne Dekinga
4. J. Ruesink
5. J. Beukema
6. S. Rumrill
7. Å. Lindström
8. Jaap van der Meer

In Oceanography

1. T. Piersma
2. J. Gils
3. Anne Dekinga
4. Jaap van der Meer
5. J. Beukema
6. J. Ruesink
7. S. Rumrill
8. J. Drent

Citations in the corpus

• Decline of recruitment success in cockles and other bivalves in the Wadden Sea: possible role of climate change, predation on postlarvae and fisheries (2005, background): “…stages (Beukema et al. 1998, Philippart et al. 2003), and whether the ongoing shellfish fishery is also a decisive factor because of mechanical dredging causing serious and long-lasting bottom disturbance that may have long-term negative consequences for bivalve recruitment (Piersma et al. 2001).”
• Migrating shorebirds as integrative sentinels of global environmental change (2004, background): “Instead, there are convincing data that implicate the key role of direct effects of human activities such as mechanical dredging (for shellfish and sand) and other fishery activities in shorebird population declines (Camphuysen et al . 1996, Piersma & Koolhaas 1997, Austin et al . 2000, Piersma et ”
• Digestive bottleneck affects foraging decisions in red knots Calidris canutus. II. Patch choice and length of working day (2005, methodology): “From prey items collected throughout Grienderwaard in AugSep 1998 as part of a larger survey (Piersma et al. 2001) we determined metabolizable energy content e and ballast mass k as described by Van Gils et al. 2004 (experiment 1).”
• Using the power of comparison to explain habitat use and migration strategies of shorebirds worldwide (2007, background): “…case, the returning Red Knots in 1998–2003 encountered serious declines in both prey quantity and quality as a result of the destructive mechanical harvesting of edible cockles Cerastoderma edule in the best feeding areas (Piersma et al. 2001a, b; van Gils et al. 2006c, Kraan et al. 2007).”
• Patchiness of macrobenthic invertebrates in homogenized intertidal habitats: hidden spatial structure at a landscape scale (2009, background): “…and biomass of macrobenthic fauna (Beukema et al. 1993, Piersma et al. 1993, Zwarts & Wanink 1993, Flach 1996, Dekker & Beukema 1999) and to a lesser extent with respect to the impacts of industrial harvesting of shellfish (but see Piersma et al. 2001, van Gils et al. 2006a, Kraan et al. 2007).”
• Digestively constrained predators evade the cost of interference competition (2004, methodology): “In the laboratory, prey items were identified and their lengths were measured to the nearest mm (see Piersma et al. 1993, 2001 for further details about prey sampling).”
• The ecological role of bivalve shellfish aquaculture in the estuarine environment: A review with application to oyster and clam culture in West Coast (USA) estuaries (2009, background): “…in Spain (Navedo and Masero, 2008) appeared to have low impact and be sustainable, while larger scale effects of dredge harvesting on wild stocks of mussels and cockles in intertidal areas of the Dutch Wadden Sea are highly debated (Piersma et al., 2001; Verhulst et al., 2004; Kraan et al., 2007).”
• Thermal tolerance ranges and climate variability: A comparison between bivalves from differing climates (2007, methodology): “The species sampled in this experiment represent all the numerically important species ( Piersma et al. 2001, Pearson et al. 2003).”
• Dredging for edible cockles (Cerastoderma edule) on intertidal flats: short-term consequences of fisher patch-choice decisions for target and non-target benthic fauna (2007, methodology): “…(Zostera noltii) to re-establish, the ongoing decline of M. balthica numbers in the western Dutch Wadden Sea (own data), and the absence of recovery of bivalve stocks after intensive cockle-dredging south of Vlieland and Richel (see Piersma et al. 2001) might be symptomatic of this state-shift.”
• Digestive bottleneck affects foraging decisions in red knots Calidris canutus. I. Prey choice (2005, methodology): “From prey items collected throughout Grienderwaard in Jul–Nov 1996 as part of a larger survey (Piersma et al. 2001), we determined metabolizable energy content (e) and ballast mass (k) as described for the bivalve species in experiment 1.”